Sua Sponte

That came out years ago.

So you’re a DO of a non-flying TRS in AETC?

I mean, they do have to listen because of his rank. Do they have to respect him personally? No. He also assumes responsibility when the E’s follow his orders and in the end it was a piss poor decision. The only way that doesn’t happen is if he’s a HPO and “forgiven” by senior commanders, which subsequently gets him promoted.

You do have to stab people in the back when you're charge and people under you threaten to damage your future promotions and career. Reference the fired commanders thread.

About?

Yeah, tens of people love Eielson.

I found teaching in AETC while at the -135 FTU more enjoyable than I ever did my three previous assignments in AMC.

If you have an opportunity to do either airlift or refueling in a MAJCOM that isn't AMC, you should seize that opportunity and stay there as long as you can.

So forced to retire at a grade most officer never see? Rough.

It’s been six years today. You are still missed 🇺🇸 TTT

I work with a guy who’s father was killed because he was an interpreter for the Army in Afghanistan (from Kabul). He got an expedited temporary visa because the Taliban found out he was working for the Army and started calling his house and found his work number and threatening to kill him, his wife, and kid. Obviously if it’s not for nefarious reasons, I don’t blame those that defected knowing they could lose their lives for just interacting or being trained by Americans. He’s taking his citizenship test laster this year, just had another kid, and bought his first house. If there is someone that loves being in America, it’s him. Sometimes we just don’t realize how good we have it to be naturally born Americans. It takes hearing stories like that to make us realize that despite the internal turmoil that this country has, it’s still the greatest one on the planet.

Sq/CC there is awesome.

She is married with two kids.

First open lesbian GO in the USAF who was one of the first women to fly the B-2 removed? Either failed a PT test or killed someone.

The reason why GO’s gets caught with IG stuff is because by law they have to be investigated by the Service Secretary IG/DOD IG. It’s no so easily swept under the rug by a Wing/NAF/MAJCOM IG.

No court martial or kicked out cause of it? Weird.

There’s different burden’s of proof. When you file a VA claim, it’s “more likely than not” burden. In criminal law, it’s the highest (for good reason), “beyond a reasonable doubt.” Even if the House could drum up 2/3rds majority to impeach him, it’ll never be approved in a Republican controlled Senate. So the issue would be moot. Even trying is just vying for optics from their base for election season. The Mueller Report literally says that it doesn’t show that criminal conduct either happened, nor does it exonerate him from any criminal conduct. It’s the equivalent of a hung jury. Remember, it’s beyond a reasonable doubt. However, the Mueller Report also says it adheres to a DOJ policy (not a law, a policy) that states they will not charge a sitting President with criminal charges (states will since they’re a different sovereignty). So, even if the Mueller Report would’ve said that Trump committed obstruction of justice beyond a reasonable doubt, he wasn’t going to get charged anyway by the Feds, since it would’ve gone against the DOJ policy. It would’ve just been dumped off on Congress to do something, if anything. There’s been talk about how “there wasn’t any crime, so you can’t have obstruction of justice.” Which, isn’t quite true per the Federal definition of it. There was a proceeding pending before a department or agency of the United States. The defendant knew of or had a reasonably founded belief that the proceeding was pending. The defendant corruptly endeavored to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law under which the proceeding was pending. Martha Stewart was charged, and convicted of obstruction of justice inter alia , even after the major charge of securities fraud was dismissed. But like I said, even if Mueller had found that he obstructed justice beyond a reasonable doubt, the only option is to turn it over to Congress for possible impeachment. Nixon would’ve most likely never been in the position to resign had he not been stupid enough to record himself talking obstructing justice via the “Smoking Gun Tape” by ordering the FBI to not investigate the Watergate break in. Based on the diluted Democratic nominees, all 400+ running, Trump will most likely win re-election.

Tactics, Techniques, & Procedures include: - Losing Form 9’s - Changing “color” of money - New Sq TV purchases last week of fiscal year - Official Functions: How to close for training for lunches - How to fire Civil Service employees without taking years - Jobs to obtain after your “four/five and dive” career aspirations

My favorite was the “Fear the Rat” that was etched on every shitter on Manas, even the one in OG building.

Depends on your rank. Same rank? Sure. Outrank him? No problem. Don’t outrank him? Expect paperwork. We had a prior Boom that was a newer copilot when I was at Fairchild. Under the radar he was seeing an AFE girl, which became public once they got married after she separated. She was pregnant and Rat did math backwards. He ended up tanking the dude on his OPR and sending him to be an AMLO with the Army in Ft. Riley. I guess on the way out of the door he said something shitty like “enjoy seeing your future kid working with the Army.” He ended up getting out, joining a reserve KC-10 unit, teaching UPT as a reserve unit, now back at KC-10 unit. Great dude, Rat totally boned him, but even I can attest when Mother Blue gives you a bad deal, your an still succeed.

I’ve known Rat for years. He could honestly give a shit what others thought of him. I know that it probably upsets him that he never climbed into GO status being a HPO throughout his whole career and all. I always laughed at how no community claimed him as “theirs.” The Herk bubbas thought he was a tanker dude, which was impossible since he despised the KC-135 and community. He’s a strat airlift dude (-141/-17) by trade, but they wouldn’t claim him either. Dude was a Captain Sobel who got promoted O-6 status. I will say this, he was a really good pilot flying with him a few times. But the -141 apparently flew like the -135 does, which means a 1979 Lincoln Mark VIII. He was also one of the douches who bounced out of town with his MSM in tow on his way to school when Fairchild failed their ASEV in 2010 while Rat’s old DO, who replaced him as CC, was the scapegoat in that and was relieved of command over it. Thankfully that guy, who’s a great dude, was taken care of by some GO’s later on and made O-6 and was the Vance CV a few years ago.

He was my Sq/CC at Fairchild and Manas. He made a copilot, who just had testicular cancer, talk about it in front of the squadron. He ordered a copilot in from his two weeks time off after a deployment with his family to have a formal promotion ceremony to Captain. It pissed Rat off that the guy was super pissed at him for coming in to have a promotion ceremony. Later on the guy was supposed to assume alpha alert early in the morning. The night prior he felt sorta ill, but thought he’d feel better in the morning. He woke up and felt worse, went to the flight doc and went DNIF. Rhatigan was so mad at him, he gave him an LOC/LOR for dereliction of duty since he thought the guy was trying to get out of alert duty (which was a god send to do, since you were away from the squadron and Rat). The guy is in the Guard now last I heard. I personally flew with Rat on a deployment sortie when he was my deployed Sq/CC. Since we had three pilots on board, I took my copilot back to the boom pod and let him refuel A-10’s and F-16’s all day. I felt bad for him since the cruise out to the AOR meant Rat was GKing him on all of the various Soviet era airfields between Manas and Bagram. If Rat’s reading this, he was pretty good, but I can’t believe your allowed that to happen being the A-Code! Oh yeah, one more story. Guy that was a copilot/AC at Fairchild was in Rat’s squadron. He ended up going to Kadena and getting into some “TDY Shenanigans” while on a typhoon evac that got him an Art 15. He ended up deploying soon after when Rat was the new OG at the Deid. Rat sends out an email about his “vision” and about himself as the new OG. Guy in question responds with “Hey, maybe we should lunch sometime dude.” Why? Who the knows? He tells me the next day his crew shows up and the ADO tells him that his crew is off the schedule and that he has a personal meeting with Rat. So, he goes and see Rat in his office during meeting time and Rat says “Hey, ###, come on in. Haven’t seen you in a long time.” He walks in, not thinking defensively, and sits down and Rat immediately stands him at attention yelling at him about how he’s a Colonel and how dare he use lack of email professionalism, how he had the audacity to ask Rat to write him a character reference to the Wing King at Kadena when he got his Art 15, etc. The switches tones and says “yeah, we should do lunch with me and your crew sometime, just let me know!” Rat was an English major at USAFA and speech writer for the SECAF. We used to have to select 93 ARS/All distrobox, then manually remove his name from a squadron wide email because he “hated spam.” He used to print out emails that people would sent him on various day-to-day issues, order them to his office, and proceed to pull out a red pen and correct their grammar in front of them in the email. He’s Selva’s boy (was his Wing Exec when he was a Wing King). That is most likely the only reason when as far as he did. The people I personally know who he ruined their careers are doing well in the majors. I’m not really surprised that he isn’t flying for the airlines knowing the amount of black lists he’d appear on.

You can also do TAPS at your house. You’re just required to get the briefings by CBT’s and show the Family Readiness Center the certificate at the end.

Once you go terminal leave, you don't come back unless it's for some kind of administrative thing, which usually isn't good.